Skin Care Tips

Eat a Skin-Saving Breakfast

The first meal of the day should include almonds. “They contain essential fatty acids, which help put the brakes on inflammation that accelerates fine lines, sagging, and blotchiness.”

To ensure you layer on enough sunscreen (“the best way to keep skin youthful”), fill the hollow of your palm (about ½ teaspoon) with a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher to coat her face, neck, and ears. “You may have to apply two coats to finish what you’ve squeezed out, but that’s how you can make sure that you are covered.”

High levels of tension can spike hormone production that leads to breakouts or aggravates conditions like psoriasis. “Controlling stress keeps your skin calm—but that’s easier said than done,” Taking a 10-minute time-out to apply a face mask and relax on bed works for some. Another trick: “Turn off your cell phone after 9 at night. Every little bit helps!”.

Pair Your Potions & Develop a Bedside Manner

“A ‘cross-training’ regimen is the key to rapid rejuvenation. Some ingredients—like sunscreen and antioxidants in the morning and retinoids and peptides at night—work better as a team,”

Wear Your Veggies

Frozen peas help soothe itchy, irritated eyes; put a bag of frozen peas on eyelids for about 5 minutes. The cold helps reduce swelling and pigmentation, a side effect of repeated irritation from her eczema. Unlike inflexible ice packs, a bag of peas easily conforms to the shape of the eyes for a faster effect.

Avoid Impact

The repeated jarring of high-impact cardio like running can weaken collagen and lead to sagging

Strike a Pose

Yoga moves “like Child’s Pose, Downward-Facing Dog, and Sun Salutations improve circulation—the boost of oxygen is what gives skin that lovely yoga glow.” Another reason to take to the mat: New research finds regular yoga practice may reduce the inflammation and stress that speed skin aging.

Skip Sodium

Diet soda is a vice; all the sodium in soda (anywhere from 25 to 50 mg per can) make your eyes and jawline puffy, do svoid!!

Cut Back on the Sweet Stuff

The breakdown of sugars, called glycation, damages the collagen that keeps skin smooth and firm. To prevent this natural process from careening out of control, stick to low-glycemic carbs like whole grains; they’re naturally low in sugar, and the body processes them slowly to limit the loss of collagen.

Tea Up

Drinking green and black tea safeguards your skin. Research suggests that both types of tea contain protective compounds—like EGCG and theaflavins—that help prevent skin cancers and the breakdown of collagen, the cause of wrinkles.

Layer from Thinnest to Thickest

We consider treatment steps to be anything between toning and moisturizing. Layering your serums and essences from thinnest to thickest helps the skin to absorb each layer most efficiently!

Remove Your Makeup

It’s been said a million and one times, but effectively removing makeup is the gateway to clearer, healthier skin. When makeup is removed, the skin becomes a clean canvas ready to absorb product. An easy tip is to clean your face as soon as you get in the door instead of waiting right before you go to bed. Just as you are dying to get out of your constricting work clothes, skin desperately wants to rid itself of pore-clogging debris and pollution! We like to use a gentle cleansing oil as a first step.

Invest in a great Moisturizer

Moisturizers help our skin barrier by providing lipids, protecting from external chemicals, and providing water to our sometimes parched skin.

Eat Well

Your skin acts as an excretory system to get rid of substances that don’t agree with your body. In the case of dairy, it is mucus-forming and can be difficult for the body digest—which is why many people are lactose intolerant. So when you get too much dairy for your body to digest, it may come out in the form of cystic acne (hard, painful bumps under the skin) on the chin and jawline area. The consumption of milk, cheese, and yogurt may become factors that influence endogenous hormones and mimic the hormones that trigger oil production in the skin to ignite the acne process.

Sleep 6-8 hours at night

Six to eight hours of sleep allows reboot of your skin every night so as to process everything we put into them.

Go Green

Drink a green juice every day. It will be a great replacement to your afternoon coffee and will transform your skin in a matter of days. The ingredients in the juice help oxygenate the skin and stimulate lymphatic drainage, so it’s de-puffing too! Start by eating a bit of avocado every day or even throwing half of an avocado into your morning smoothie. Avocado supplies the skin with healthy fats and phytonutrients to hydrate from the inside out and bring back your glow!

Provide Vitamins

Complete nutrition for the epidermis is critical. The epidermis (the outermost layer of the skin) is a key protective structure that uses 23 vitamins. These vitamins must be provided at therapeutic concentrations and delivered within the epidermis for optimum skin health. A vitamin serum is non-irritating and formulated with vitamins A, B, C, D, and E to give skin the nutrition it needs.